Elevated Tsh in Children Who Emigrated to Israel from Belarus and the Ukraine near Chernobyl
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The degree of radiation exposure to the thyroids of children who originally lived in Chernobyl contaminated areas is of concern in Israel, because of the many immigrants who arrived from such areas in a wave of immigration from the CIS countries since 1990. Of the 650,000 people who emigrated to Israel since that time, our estimate is that about 20% came from regions of the Ukraine, Russia and Belarus that were contaminated with various amounts of radionuclides.
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